miscdevice: Add helper macro for misc device boilerplate

Many modules call misc_register and misc_deregister in its module init
and exit methods without any additional code. This ends up being
boilerplate. This patch adds helper macro module_misc_device(), that
replaces module_init()/ module_exit() with template functions.

This patch also converts drivers to use new macro.

Change since v1:
Add device.h include in miscdevice.h as module_driver macro was not
available from other include files in some architectures.

Signed-off-by: PrasannaKumar Muralidharan <prasannatsmkumar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/hid/uhid.c b/drivers/hid/uhid.c
index 99ec3ff7563b..7f8ff39ed44b 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/uhid.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/uhid.c
@@ -779,19 +779,8 @@ static struct miscdevice uhid_misc = {
 	.minor		= UHID_MINOR,
 	.name		= UHID_NAME,
 };
+module_misc_device(uhid_misc);
 
-static int __init uhid_init(void)
-{
-	return misc_register(&uhid_misc);
-}
-
-static void __exit uhid_exit(void)
-{
-	misc_deregister(&uhid_misc);
-}
-
-module_init(uhid_init);
-module_exit(uhid_exit);
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("User-space I/O driver support for HID subsystem");